Nice to have gotten to Ockeghem. You’re right, he had/ has this formidable reputation but his music is very beautiful, I’d rather stick it on than some of the more recent ‘soothing’ sacred music. ASV Gaudeamus did a little box, strangely, of all those Ockeghem recordings except one. I have it but I can’t recall if it included the additional bits and pieces by his contemporaries. It’s streamable on Spotify at least, if anyone is curious.
murraylow
I bought a cd of Ockeghem and fell in love with renaissance music. It does kind of all sound the same, but he is still special to me
markhollingsworth
Another great group-ensemble interpreting renaissance polyphony is Beautiful Farm, another Cinquecento, another Graindelavoix... In my humble opinion, Renaissance music is is one of the great achievements of Western Culture, i.e. of the whole Humanity.
andreuibars
I would most definitely buy a complete Gaudeamus box. Second best would be complete Clerks Group box. I can't imagine, however, that Universal would ever issue such a thing.
robhaynes
The prolation mass works because its material is essentially triadic and the harmonic movement is static. But the brilliance of being able to play inversion against the original form, while four different meters are unfolding at once, is still amazing.
christopherwilliams
It's Eloquence who have been pushing out some ASV material (e.g. the Lindsay String Quartet in Bartok and Beethoven). Other great boxes would be Enrique Batiz's "Musica Mexicana" series and Loris Tjeknavorian's series of Khachaturian and other Russian/Armenian music with the Armenian Philharmonic.
wappingbpy
I wish they would box up all the ASV catalog and release for our listing pleasure 😊
